Fascinating Folktales - Engage Punjab 2019

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In Feb 2018, we launched the 'Undivided Punjab Edition' of the Fascinating Folktales of Punjab; a bilingual book in both the scripts of the Punjabi language (Gurmukhi & Shahmukhi). With your help, these books reached in the hands of children of both East and West Punjab. For the first time they saw Punjab and Punjabi as a whole via these beautifully illustrated, high quality books - that instilled pride towards their language and heritage in them.

Close to 1000 books have been distributed and donated to children of East & West Punjab. Hundreds of children worldwide have sent their videos as participants in our StoryTelling competition. Parents and Teachers wrote to us on how excited children are and how each one of them are in love with these books and are enthusiastic to read Punjabi because of these. That has inspired us.

But the work in Punjab has just begin. We want to take these books to the hands of children in each elementary school in Punjab.

We believe that even if children come across one book that excites the love of Mother Language Punjabi in them, we have sowed a seed.

We want your help in sowing the seed in every community where children of the Punjab reside. Please help sponsor books for a school or village in Punjab. We will get the books to the organization and encourage them to engage children in storytelling and reading competitions. Exemplary performances will be rewarded with more books and cash prizes.

Please visit our FacebookPage and Youtube channels to see what a difference these books are making to excite children towards #ਮਾਂਬੋਲੀ_ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

Thank You, so much for being there for this project and enabling me to continue with this seva for the sixth straight year.

A voice for Heritage Village Kartarpur Sahib

Dear Friend,

Wish you a very happy 2019.

Our team has been busy not only taking the Fascinating Folktales to the schools of Punjab that you can see the testemonies of on our Youtube channel and Facebook Page but also - on another important mission that we need your support on.

I was in Kartapur Sahib, West Punjab (the last earthly abode of Baba Nanak) in Feb. 2018 and felt a deep connection to the sacred space because unlike East Punjab the Gurdwara Sahib complex and the fields of Baba Nanak still made you travel back in time and connect to the time and space of Guru Sahib.

With Kartarpur Corridor opening news, I got a bit worried when I saw the overly commercialized plans for the village. Long story short, after knocking on several doors to take the preservation of the sacred place - I decided to do something about it. I cannot in my lifetime bear to see this important place become a city of marbleized structures in the name of religous tourism that has spoiled the serenity of Darbar Sahib, Amritsar and Nankana Sahib.

ਨਨਕਾਣਾ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਤੋਂ ਗੁਰਪੁਰਬ ਦੀਆਂ ਵਧਾਈਆਂ

Dear Friends,

Thank You, for supporting our project. Your contributions are at work already. We celebrated Gurpurab in Nankana Sahib by gifting books to children from Peshawar, Sindh, Baluchistan, Lahore and ofcourse the ones that live right there at the Janam Asthan. In East Punjab, we continue to reach out to government schools in the remotest areas without access to good Punjabi literature for children.

With our Sanjha Punjab Edition, we hope to revive a lost dream in the children of Punjab — of the love of Undivided Punjab and its beautiful Mother Language Punjabi..and to instill in them that Punjabiyat transcends religious, class, geographical and dialectical boundaries.

Please see more pictures from the field and meet some of the children from both sides of the fence here. It will bring a smile on your face. Click Here.

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There is amazing work happening in the Sikh community everyday. Only through our unwavering commitment to support the change-makers in the Sikh community can such initiatives continue to grow. Read more about this project here - Fascinating Folktales - Engage Punjab 2019

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